Power to prohibit sale of fish

The State Government may by notification prohibit in any specified areas the offering or exposing for sale or barter of any fish capture of which has been made unlawful by any rule made under section 3 of this Act, although caught outside [Madhya Pradesh] and although their capture might be legal at the place where caught. In section 6 of the Principal Act,— (a) for the proviso to sub-section (2), the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:— "Provided that no person so arrested shall be detained longer than may be necessary for bringing him before a Judicial Magistrate except under an order of the Magistrate for his detention according to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974)."; (b) for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(3) All Fishery Officers shall have the same powers of search, seizure and investigations in respect of an offence under this Act as a police officer of the rank of a Sub-Inspector has under the provisions the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974).".